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v1.0.0
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First stable release. Releases drop their pre-release suffix from this one on. Linux amd64 is tested; Windows amd64 is tested in CI. The Linux arm64 and macOS binaries are built but not tested.

Update from any v0.1 with backsight update apply: it takes a verified backup first and rolls back if a step fails. Then restart Claude Code and a running dashboard (Ctrl+C, then backsight dashboard). New install: see below.

  • The server is unchanged (Hindsight 1.2.0): no server upgrade.
  • The instruction set (v17), the bank template, the plugin and the metrics index are unchanged.
  • A v0.1 install is a pre-release one, so it is offered v1.0.0 as usual. Once on v1.0.0, a later pre-release is offered only with prereleases = true under [update] in config.toml (update).

What changed

memory_search returns every hit above its floor, up to 20. It stopped at 8, though memories are short: a search with many strong hits dropped some that scored as high as the ones shown. The relevance floor (0.4) still decides which hits come back; the limit only caps a long answer, which costs about 2,500 tokens at 20 hits.

  • Each server call of a search now brings up to 3,000 tokens of memories (1,500 before), so one query alone can fill the 20; a search takes as long as before (about 1 s on a local server).
  • Recall at each prompt is unchanged: same floors, same 1,500 tokens a call, at most 3 memories.
  • backsight search has the same defaults (--limit 20, --min-score 0.4). memory_search's limit and min_score still change them for one search.

Install

On Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Barben360/backsight/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
backsight setup

On Windows x86_64, in PowerShell:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Barben360/backsight/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex"
backsight setup

Requirements as for v0.1.22-m7. On Windows, Claude Code must find Git Bash: if Git for Windows is portable or installed in a place of your own, set CLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH to its bin\bash.exe (doctor's git-bash check gives the command).

Known limits

  • Dashboard:
    • Version switches and settings changes are marked on a day's page and on Releases only, not on every chart.
    • The custom window goes back 13 months, as far as this PC keeps its history.
    • Time to recall needs a few days of history, and 20 sessions before it shows times; it is judged (ok or watch) only from 100 sessions, and reads "too few" until then.
    • A window, custom or typed in a URL, can span at most 400 days, between 2000 and 2099.
    • Bank growth still counts a UTC day that straddles the window's start as a whole day.
    • Memory yield needs four weeks: a week counts 28 days after it ends.
    • On a window over 200 days, charts show no per-day values on hover, and "Show as a table" lists the latest 120 days.
    • A week that is not complete shows no count of new memories.
    • The project filter takes a typed name, not a pick from a list (the Projects page lists the names). The Projects list cannot be sorted. The context card names the session budget rather than showing its value.
  • GPU reranker:
    • It needs the Docker runtime, on the server's PC.
    • Tested on one NVIDIA RTX A2000 (Linux) and one AMD Radeon 890M (Linux). Intel GPUs, macOS and Windows are not tested.
  • Owner checks:
    • The short-lived native units created during install, start and restore are not checked.
    • On Windows, when neither schtasks nor the task's file can be read, the task is driven as before.
  • retain resend-failed: it does not cover notes and sub-agent reports sent while extraction failed (the queue drops them once sent). A transcript rewritten or moved after its worktree was deleted loses the project recorded for those turns, so the session is then filed by today's rules.
  • The metrics index: an index already in write-ahead mode whose folder no longer allows it fails its writes until the state directory is back on a local disk. stats days reads a year of prompts with no index for it (about 0.1 s locally).
  • Import: a file the server keeps rejecting holds that folder's next files until it passes. The last tick before a cap can overshoot it by what was already in flight. A file deleted from the folder stays in the memory until import purge.
  • Windows:
    • WSL is not tested, and Windows on Arm has no binary.
    • The native runtime is the only runtime there (server runtime switch is refused). It serves this PC only, has no web UI, and starts with your logon, not at boot.
    • backsight server status keeps showing the server's last refusal while it is stopped, until a start passes the check.
    • backsight's .exe files are not code-signed: SmartScreen or Smart App Control may warn about them. The install script checks the release signature before it runs anything.
  • The terminal's look:
    • On Windows, the splash draws the ASCII logo unless the console's code page is UTF-8 (65001; chcp 65001): many consoles default to another one.
    • The views' tables (stats <view>) and section headings are not colored yet, nor setup --undo's list.
    • The braille logo needs a font with braille characters (most coding fonts have them); with one that lacks them, set terminal.logo = "blocks". The logo's dot can take two columns in an East Asian terminal.
  • A new install reads "learning" for its first week, and some numbers read "too few" until enough prompts and turns accumulate.
  • Extraction cost needs a price: the built-in table's, or one set under [llm] in the config file for another model (doctor's price check says when none is known). The server reports token counts for all PCs together.
  • On native, PostgreSQL is 18.1 with pgvector 0.8.5, where the Docker image runs 18.6 with 0.8.7; backup verify runs in the runtime that will restore.
  • On Windows, the commands the dashboard and stats --json offer to copy are quoted for PowerShell; run through Git Bash, a name holding an apostrophe comes out without it.
  • Claude cannot run /reload-plugins: after an update from the session, you type it.
  • A LAN address carries the API key in clear; a tailnet address encrypts it.
  • The shared part of a session continued on two PCs may be stored twice.
  • Several PCs: a PC sends its figures once a UTC day, up to the day before, so another PC's today is not in all PCs until the next day; the others' figures are fetched every 6 hours. A PC counts in a window by the noon (UTC) of each of its days. The other PCs send no project, session or memory: Projects, Sessions and Memories stay this PC's, and a project filter does not narrow the others (other PCs: not filtered). The verdict stays this PC's. Speed across PCs is a range from time buckets, never an exact time, and the PCs' figures are trusted as sent: nothing signs them.
  • The feedback database:
    • The ledger lookup's speed is measured on Linux only: Windows has no bench yet.
    • After a rollback to an older version and an update again, the counts that version added catch up at the first tick.
    • In a rare race during an update or a rollback, an older version can leave one tick's shows out of its ledger.json; this version's next tick counts them.

Report problems at https://github.com/Barben360/backsight/issues, after reading the diagnostic backsight report prints, or ask Claude /backsight:doctor. Report vulnerabilities privately, as https://github.com/Barben360/backsight/blob/main/SECURITY.md describes.